House of Mystery unfolds with a perilous chase across town
Ralph Van Vechten investigates the House of Mystery across from the Powhatan club where a man dies after being ejected. Tom Phinney is drawn into danger as captors seize him and a mysterious sweet voiced girl aids an escape. Detective Flint and a web of clues tighten the pursuit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph van Vechten
Lewisure
Powhatan Club
van Vechten
Tom Phinney
Paine Carew
Tom
Flint Éalla
House of Mystery
Mr. Callis
Paige Brew
London
Miss Carew
Mrs. Devereaux
New York
Temple Bonner
Compton Schuyler
Max Willard
Willard
Delia
Ill. Chapter VI continued. Delia and Jessie in town
Tom observes Delia Willard and Jessie as they head downtown for a private matter. He learns Rudolph Van Vechten is out of the city while Theo dore Van Vechten’s detective hints at Willardite in a vague government-royal context. An unnamed heroine visits Van Vechten in his sick room, shocking Barnicle.
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Claremont
Tom
Miss Willard
Old Willard
Jessie
Delia
Jessie Willard
Central Park
Powhatan
van Vechten
Kenmore
Barnicle
Mr. Rudolph
Ma Phineas Flint
Flint
Mr. Flint
Randolph van Vechten
Phinney
Miss Carew
Theodore van Vechten
Max Willard
Rudolph
New York
Patterson, Reed & Patterson
Washington, D. C
Willlard
U. S
Willard
Rudolph van Vechten
Kentimore
Davenport
Barniere
Mr. van Vechten
World's Largest Lathe Built by U S Navy and Niles Bement Hand
The United States Naval Gun Factory in Washington, D C, and the Niles Bement Hand company at the Bement works built the world’s largest lathe for turning and boring giant sea coast defense guns. The lathe bed measures 175 feet with overall length 185 feet, requiring a tunnel under a highway for installation. The boring bench and carriage travel areas span 108 inches in width and 103 feet, with additional bed sections extending 75 feet. The machine weighs about 800000 pounds or 400 tons and is equipped with electrical systems.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Naval Gun Shop
Washington, D.C
Niles Bement-Hand Company
Bement Works
Prohibition Talk Reveals Resolve and Relapse
A dialogue shows Mia Point challenging a man about giving up drinking and smoking. He claims strength, notes Tonee abstained for two months, and explains relapse after recovering from typhoid fever due to a lack of reason to deny himself.
Angora Goat Fends Off Ram in Mohegan Park Fight
In Norwich Connecticut Superintendent John Duff introduced a large Angora buck to the Mohegan Park deer yard. A reigning ram clashed with the newcomer, provoking a noisy scene as animals rallied. Duff intervened, healing the Angora’s bleeding horn wound and separating the rivals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norwich
Conn
John Duff
Mohegan Park
Duff
Brave Boy Receives $100 Weekly After Rescuing Kidnapped Girl
Achille Oklahoma resident Charles Brown now earns $100 a week for life after saving a girl kidnapped by bandits near the Cumberland mountains sixteen years ago. As a youth he pursued the abductors on foot, captured them, and guided them to a telegraph station where authorities secured the rescued girl and prisoners. His former Tennessee lumber company employer, now a millionaire, left the lifetime stipend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Achille
Okla
Charles Brown
Bryan County
Leild
Tennessee
Cumberland Mountaings
Brown
Tasnnensee
Shark alarm scare on the Metapan voyage
Chief Steward Ballte of the United Fruit Liner Metapan used an alarm clock to frighten a shark. He wound the clock, dropped it near the water, and a shark swallowed it. The alarm rang as the shark leaped, tried to spit out the water, and then swam away into the open sea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Ballte
United Fruit
Central America
Ita Tall
Territe Epeed
Ita
Honeymoon Crash Injures Mother-in-Law in Jakeville
Clarence Humphrey began his honeymoon by running over his mother-in-law and breaking her arm in Jakeville New Jersey. She urged the newlyweds to start their car again and continue their trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jakeville
N. J
Clarence Humphrey
Duke and heiress romance quoted in Courier Journal
A playful exchange from Louisville’s Courier Journal features an heiress asking Percival about love and a duke answering with affectionate slang. The item reads like a society line or column snippet reflecting aristocratic flair and light domestic whimsy.
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Percival
Yaas
Louieville
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Charles Edmonds
A. Cme
Org & Ca
Cs Sese
CEE
United States
England
Smith
Regent Street
Gabrielle
Suzanne
Bravery
Shark
The
Rub-No-More Co
Ft. Wayne, Ind
Fletcher
Dean
Doan
Euen
Storr
Kentucky
T. B. Redd
Milsurn CO
Buffalo
Ives
Carter
Lydia
Pinkham Medicine Co
Druggiata
Paxton Toilet Co
Boston
Mase
Absorbine, JR
Price
Hottlent
F. Young
Temple Street
Springtide
Mass
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